The Bakery Project – Diary – 12 It is recommendable to have a Ginger Bread recipe in your repertory for Christmas time. The Black Forest Bakery is offering different cookies with icing decoration – as you can see in the picture above. The Santa picture is printed on edible rice paper. So is my little […]
The Bakery Project – Diary – 11 Christmas is around the corner! The first Stollen are baked. And there are already lots of orders for Stollen in the bakery. The Black Forest Bakery is offering 5 different kinds of Stollen in different sizes. You can choose between Dresdner Stollen, Marzipan, Poppy Seed, Hazelnut
Last week my brother came back home from a bicycle ride, he had a coffee in a cone during a break. He was so impressed and bagged me to make a plan somehow to cup his beloved espresso in a cone or else. I wasn’t happy with a cone as you cannot put it down.
The Bakery Project – Diary – 05 I have never heard of “Lamingtons” before. When I was told about them the first time I had to think of the animals “Lemminge”. But far from that: “Lamingtons” are a pastry covered with chocolate and coconut. I saw them the first time in the Black Forest Bakery;
The Bakery Project – Diary – 03 It is spring in South Africa and spring means strawberry time. For me it is the second strawberry season this year – a really fortunate coincidence. In the bakery we made little pastry tartlets. We filled them with custard cream and decorated them with strawberries as you can
Scones are typical for an English “High Tea”. They are served with clotted cream and jam. In Cornwall they call this traditional afternoon ceremony “Cream Tea”. I got the Scone recipe from my mum in the seventies. She brought it back from an England trip. Especially in summer or autumn the Scones are perfect with
Yes, I have to admit that I’m a chocoholic. Because of that I don’t want to leave out a single recipe for chocolate cookies in my recipe collection. This recipe is easy and quick to make and it is good to always have some cookies in stock. You never know who will surprise you with
Our friend Michael loves Black & White Cookies – in Germany called “Schwarz-Weiß-Gebäck. So whenever I have time I bake him some cookies for his birthday in August. I prefer to make a spiral design out of both doughs. More challenging is the chessboard pattern. In bakeries you can get very small Black & White
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These little muffins are coming with a surprise. Each muffin hides one fresh rasberry. Summertime is raspberry time so take the advantage to get fresh raspberries for these delicious muffins with white chocolate. The recipe is from Linda Lomelino, I modified it to smaller cute muffins topped with buttercream. Dough 200 g flour 1 ½
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Oh, I love these little pastries! They are a puff of sweetness and colourfulness. And so nice to look at. They look like little jewels. Do you know the nice little macaron shops of Laduree? When I go there I can never decide which taste and colour I should choose. I always want to have